Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile amid catcalls and cheers, Premier Blum had gone to Geneva full of plans for a new World Economic Conference, but he found British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden disinclined to listen. Mr. Eden's entourage gave out that the Foreign Secretary, "weakened by chicken pox," was going to spend a week "regaining his strength" on the Riviera...
Divorce the Covenant? In a speech to the Assembly which many delegates called "amazing," the repeated demands of Adolf Hitler that the Covenant of the League of Nations be "divorced" from the Treaty of Versailles of which it is an integral part were seconded by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. He appeared to feel that only by rewriting the Treaty to suit Germany could that country be induced to rejoin the League. "Human life is not static," argued Captain Eden, "but is rather a changing thing." The Assembly last week did nothing about this Eden proposal...
...Ready for His Majesty too was a multi-volume Scotland Yard dossier pasted up out of clippings to show what the World press thought of the King's yachting trip (TIME, Aug. 17 et seq.). Ready to be promptly received in audience last week was Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, just let out of quarantine after passing several weeks at home with chicken pox. Ready were prominent Jewish friends of Edward VIII to exhort him on the subject of the British Expeditionary Force now speeding to Palestine to crush Arab insurgence and make it a true "Jewish homeland." Ready...
...British Foreign Secretary when he made his experimental plea to Germany that she be satisfied by a guarantee from the Great Powers that they would in all circumstances let her have access to raw materials (TIME, Sept. 23, 1935). This sop the present British Foreign Secretary, Captain Anthony Eden, still keeps talking about from time to time. Meanwhile Sam Hoare has become First Lord to make the British Admiralty so strong that London will no longer have to soft-soap Berlin. Last week the distinctly pro soft-soap Times of London almost lost patience on reading the Nürnberg...
...Locarno Room, where the "Spirit of Locarno" was distilled into a pact which was to have made France and Germany friends (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925), the new treaty was hailed by Foreign Secretary Eden as "a symbol of freely agreed partnership between the British and Egyptian peoples...